In southeast Delhi’s Jasola Vihar,  a consignment of spurious medication which was meant for the cancer patients was seized from three people. According to the sources, police are examining whether the counterfeit medication was produced in another country.

Police stated that they received the information about three people who allegedly sold bogus medication to the kin of cancer patients at high rate. The informant told the cops on Wednesday morning that the three would visit Jasola Vihar. “A trap was laid and a team caught the trio,” sources said.

The police seized more than 100 packets of fake medicines from the three accused. According to the sources, “One of the packets had a label stating it was manufactured in Bangladesh. We are probing this”.

On being asked to produce documentation for carrying the medicines, the culprits had no answers. “They were not carrying any documents or medical slips,” the officer said.

Police seized 73 packets of drugs labelled as Palbocent and Lenvanix — medication used to treat cancer — from one of the men. “We also seized medicines labelled as Osicent, Crizocent, Ibrucent from the other two,” said a police officer.

Later the medicines were checked by drug inspectors, who after the inspection declared them as doubt quality. The trio was taken to the police station for further investigation. Sources said they are probing their links in other states and also how many, people were duped by them.

It is not the first time that the Delhi Police has caught people with fake medicines. In June this year, police arrested 10 people, including two doctors, and busted a unit manufacturing fake life-saving drugs meant to treat Covid-19 patients.